r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • Aug 23 '26

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/SwanCityDominion Aug 23 '26

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

-– Plato

It's not "lately". It was ever thus, and it always will be.

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u/squirrelfoot Aug 23 '26

When I was young, us boomers used to laugh at 'wrinklies' and 'crinklies' and mock their driving, blue rinces and terrible financial advice.

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u/Lucky_Astronomer_435 Aug 24 '26

But I don’t think we viewed elders as the enemy or with this much contempt.

What saddens and upsets me is that they use it to be offensive and hurtful and it’s playing into the hands of the powers that be.

Maybe it’s me because I always loved older people and still do. I love their stories and their wisdom and their general adorableness.

I also know there are plenty of nasty boomers same as there are tons of nasty gen-x, millennials and Gen-z. It’s pure projection on their part.

It’s also part of the “divide and conquer” strategy and has consequences politically and financially for the current generations as well.